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Posted: July 16 2005,14:04 QUOTE
Hi, all.

I have the following old Compaq laptop: 32MB RAM ,800MB HDD,PCMCIA network card, floppy,no CD drive.

I did a Debian Sarge install using 3 * floppies, then a network install from the internet. This went fairly smoothly.

Unfortunately, Sarge didn't recognise some of my hardware. I would like to do a Knoppix based install, in a similar way. This way, I'll have the power of Debian, and the "it just works" of Knoppix hardware detection.

Does anybody know whether this is possible, without a CDROM drive?

Thanks,

Chris.
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Posted: July 16 2005,14:58 QUOTE
Sure can, it is described in the documentation project look here
There are other methods also described in the docs.
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Posted: July 16 2005,15:28 QUOTE
Cheers,

What a star.  I'll give this a go and let you know how I get on.

Will I be able to get the full DSL HD install if it works?

Thanks,

Chris.
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Posted: July 16 2005,16:36 QUOTE
Hi,

tomsrtbt booted, but PCMCIA network card not seen.  Any ideas? :-(

Thanks,

Chris.
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Posted: July 16 2005,20:05 QUOTE
If it helps, the PCMCIA network card, seems to get detected by Debian as a NE2000.

On the install, could I create 3 debian partitions /, swap, spare.

After debian install, download frugal, cp to fd0 or spare, and run from here?

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Chris.
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